My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905

You can cower, ” she told them in a clear voice, wrapping her long shaking fingers around the cold iron bars. “But I will stand.

He had touched her. Bare skin to bare skin. She needed a bleach wipe. She would absolutely use a bleach wipe on her leg. Even if it ate her flesh off.

They don’t teach kidnapping at Eton, dad

To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liberation of all.

I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.

Become more humble as the market goes your way.

And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city

The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out of my life and then contorts them.

Buddha called himself 'The Enlightened One' and Jesus called himself 'The Son of God'. To me the term 'World-Teacher' is of as little importance as 'The Son of God' or 'The Enlightened One'.

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

The actors I looked up to when I was a teenager, they all just disappeared into different characters.

Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts.

A plant-based diet is more likely to produce good health and to reduce sharply the risk of heart problems, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, gallstones, and kidney disease.